BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
VIRUSES
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Question
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Viruses are more complex than bacterial cells and are able to prevent the damaging effects of antibiotics.
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Viruses are made up of organic molecules that are too small to be targeted by antibiotics.
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Viruses are not alive and do not carry out the life functions that are stopped by antibiotics.
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Viruses do not possess the protein coat that is targeted by all antibiotics.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Antibiotics work against bacteria because they kill these living organisms by stopping their growth and reproduction. Viruses, on the other hand, are not alive. Viruses grow and reproduce only after they’ve invaded other living cells.
Detailed explanation-2: -Viruses are surrounded by a protective protein coating; they don’t have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics like bacteria does. It is because of this that antibiotics don’t work on viruses.
Detailed explanation-3: -Antibiotics cannot kill viruses because viruses have different structures and replicate in a different way than bacteria. Antibiotics are produced by microorganisms to kill or control the growth of other microorganisms by blocking specific metabolic pathways within the cell.
Detailed explanation-4: -Antibiotics damage the cell wall of living organisms leading to their death. The viruses do not have a cell wall. Antibiotics are produced by bacteria and fungi that treat bacterial infections, not viral infections because viruses use host cells to perform their activities. So, they cannot kill viruses.
Detailed explanation-5: -Antibiotics are useless against viral infections. This is because viruses are so simple that they use their host cells to perform their activities for them. So antiviral drugs work differently to antibiotics, by interfering with the viral enzymes instead.